A research team at King's College London has isolated a new form of aluminum—a highly abundant metal, that could provide a ...

A prestigious collaboration between the UK and Germany is set to revolutionise our understanding of the hidden world of atoms. Researchers from the ...

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

NASA finds carbon molecules in ancient Martian lake, and scientists admit it is difficult to explain them without life.

A discovery by UCLA organic chemists may one day put catalytic converter thieves out of business. In new research, they've ...

Five UW researchers have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows this week, joining a prestigious cohort of early-career ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Key takeawaysPrecious transition metals like platinum and palladium are used as catalysts to speed up chemical reactions that produce carbon-nitrogen ...

When Katharine Burr Blodgett discovered nonreflecting glass, the General Electric Company’s public relations machine made her a star ...